Christian Schad, German painter born in 1894, associated with Dada and the New Objectivity movement. Considered as a group, Schad's portraits form an extraordinary record of life in Vienna and Berlin in the years following World War I.

He studied at the art academy in Munich in 1913. A pacifist, he fled to Switzerland in 1915 to avoid service in World War I, settling first in Zurich and then in Geneva. Both cities were centers of the Dada movement, and Schad became a Dadaist. While living there, Schad created his own version of the Photogram (which later was named "Schadographs" by Tristan Tzara) where a contour picture is developed on light-sensitive platters. From 1920 to 1925, he spent some years in Rome and Naples where he attended painting and drawing courses at the art academy.

Schad's art was not condemned by the Nazis in the way that the work of Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, and many other artists of the New Objectivity movement was; this may have been because of his lack of commercial success. He became interested in Eastern philosophy around 1930, and his artistic production declined precipitously. After the crash of the New York stock market in 1929, Schad could no longer rely on his father's financial support, and he largely stopped painting in the early 1930s. In 1937 the Nazis included Schad in Great German Art, their antidote to the Degenerate Art show.

Schad lived in obscurity in Germany through the war and after it. After the destruction of his studio in 1943 Schad moved to Aschaffenburg. The city commissioned him to copy Matthias Grünewald's Virgin and Child (Stuppach, parish church), a project on which he worked until 1947. When his Berlin studio was destroyed in aerial bombing, his future wife Bettina saved the artworks in a spectacular action and brought them to him to Aschaffenburg. An initially provisional arrangement turned into a stay of four decades. Schad continued to paint in the 1950s in Magic Realist style and returned in the 1960s to experiments with photograms. Schad's reputation did not begin to recover until the 1960s, when a couple of shows in Europe dovetailed with the rise of Photorealism.

"My childhood was very colorful, though not all sugar-and-honey. By the age of seven, I had undergone five foot surgeries, and I had to spend almost a year in hospitals. The rehabilitation treatment was long and arduous.

At the age of twelve, I entered the Junior Art School. In Russia, after eighth grade, you can either continue education at high school or learn a trade at the vocational schools. I did not have a single moment of hesitation; I saw my future at the Specialized School of Art. When the list of those accepted to the school was announced after the exams, I was sitting at the last desk in back of the room. I remember very clearly thinking, "If I am not on the list, my life is over." You cannot imagine my happiness when my name was announced.

During my third year of study, my parents moved from Barnaul to Mukachevo. Since I wanted to finish my courses at the same school, I stayed in Barnaul alone. I slept at night at the school. I hid all my belongings under a podium. By the time I graduated, I had come to see myself as a painter."

Tracy Harris, American artist born in 1958 who grew up in Dallas, Texas.

Harris later moved to Long Island, New York in 1992 after marrying American minimalist artist, Dan Flavin. She attended Southern Methodist University, receiving an MFA in 1983. She continues to live in East Hampton (town), New York.

Phillip Herschel Paradise, American painter born in Ontario, Oregon, in 1905.

Paradise learned the skill of sign painting while at work for the Standard Oil Company. After leaving his job as a sign painter, he studied architectural drawing with Clarence Cullimore, and later moved to Los Angeles where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute under Frank Tolles Chamberlain, Rico Lebrun, and Leon Kroll.

In 1928 held his first exhibition at the Hollywood Public Library. The following year, one of his paintings was exhibited at the Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

In 1931 he joined the California Watercolor Society. He traveled several times to Mexico and other Caribbean and Central American countries.

His painting is often defined as Regionalist. Throughout his career he experimented with many mediums and techniques as watercolor, serigraphs, lithography and even ceramics.

He died in 1907.

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Luis Caballero Holguin, Colombian painter born in Bogotá in 1943, an important figure of Colombian art.

His work was characterized by painting male nudes with a especially strong erotic content.

In 1961 he began his studies in Fine Arts at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. There receivesd the influence of the painter Juan Antonio Roda and his teacher artist Marta Traba. In 1963 traveled to France where he joined the Académie la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, lived there for several years. During this period, he said he was influenced by the work of De Kooning and Bacon.

He returned to Bogota in 1995 on the occasion of an exhibition of a series of drawing in the Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango.

In the early part of his career he painted mostly landscapes. It was only comparatively late in life that Troyon found his métier as a painter of animals, and achieved international recognition.

Troyon entered the ateliers very young as a decorator, and until he was twenty he labored assiduously at the minute details of porcelain ornamentation.

In 1846 Troyon went to the Netherlands, and at the Hague saw Paulus Potter's famous "Young Bull". From the studies he made of this picture, of Cuyp's sunny landscapes, and Rembrandt's noble masterpieces he soon evolved a new method of painting, and it is only in works produced after this time that Troyon's true individuality is revealed. When he became conscious of his power as an animal painter he developed with rapidity and success, until his works became recognized as masterpieces in Britain and America, as well as in all countries of the Continent.

All his famous pictures are of date between 1850 and 1864, his earlier work being of comparatively little value. His mother, who survived him, instituted the Troyon prize at the École des Beaux Arts.

Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, one of Chile's greatest painters and one of the four Great Chilean Masters, along with Pedro Lira, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma and Juan Francisco González.

He was a landscape painter born in 1869, and left an estimated 1,000 paintings. Highlights of his work include paintings of the snow-topped mountains in France and views of Paris.

Valenzuela Llanos a was pupil of Chilean artists Cosme San Martín and Juan Mochi, both directors of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile, with Mochi having the greatest influence on Valenzuela Llanos’ work. He was also taught by the Chilean romantic painter Onofre Jarpa.

Domingo Valdivieso y Henarejos, Spanish painter and engraver in the Academic style born in 1830 in Mazarron.

He began his education in his home town, but later moved to Murcia to pursue his secondary studies. While there, he displayed a notable talent for drawing, so his counselors advised him to pursue artistic studies as well. His first teacher was a local artist named Juan Albacete. At eighteen, he moved to Madrid to work for the government, but also attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in his spare time.

By 1853, he had firmly decided on a career as a painter and quit his position. He also began to do lithography. In 1861, he received a grant from the Diputación de Murcia to complete his studies in Paris and Rome, where he came under the influence of Eduardo Rosales and the Nazarene movement.

From there, he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, winning medals in 1862, 1864 and 1866, the year he became a Professor of anatomical painting at the San Fernando Academy. In 1871, he was awarded another medal at the Exhibition.

His best-known works deal with religious subjects, although he also created historical scenes, portraits, mythological scenes and costumbrista works; depicting Italy and Murcia. The largest collection of his paintings is at the "Museum of Fine Arts of Murcia" (MUBAM).

Gaetano Gandolfi, Italian painter of the late Baroque and early Neoclassic period, born in 1734, active in Bologna.

He was born in San Matteo della Decima, near Bologna, to a family of artists. Ubaldo Gandolfi was his brother, Mauro Gandolfi was his son, and Democrito Gandolfi was his grandson. Gaetano became a "student" at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna, where he was taught by Felice Torelli and Ercole Lelli. In the academy, he was the recipient of several prizes for both figure drawing and sculpture. Later, in an autobiography, Gaetano claimed Felice Torelli as his master. Other sources mention Ercole Graziani the Younger and Ercole Lelli. He traveled to England, and became strongly influenced by Tiepolo.

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